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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A system for social reform advocated by Charles Fourier in the early 1800s, proposing that society be organized into self-sustaining communal groups.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The communistic system propounded by the French socialist Charles Fourier (1772-1837), based on his philosophy of the passions and affections.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The coöperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.
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- noun The
cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.
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Examples
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Brook Farm was thus free, it had to bear its share in the general assaults upon the doctrines of associative life and "Fourierism" that were made elsewhere.
Brook Farm John Thomas Codman
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Should it have been the fortune of any one to come across an occasional allusion to Fourier, it will be apt to be of such a forbidding nature that there will be no strong temptation to follow the subject further; and all through the literature of our country, in the writings of men whose reading, if not their knowledge, should have taught them better, will be found intimations that "Fourierism" was a system of life based on a plane hardly worthy of being rated higher than mere sensualism.
Brook Farm John Thomas Codman
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Charlie Black: Fourierism was tried in the late nineteenth century... and it failed.
Favorite Economics Dialogues in Movies, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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E. Poulat, Les Cahiers manuscrits de Fourier (Paris, 1957), which includes a guide to studies of Fourierism; Oeuvres choisies de C.H. Saint-Simon, 3 vols.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas SANFORD A. LAKOFF 1968
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It was during this remarkable movement, which has never yet been properly studied, that modern Socialism was born -- Fourierism with
The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin
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This explodes the infidel systems of Fourierism, Socialism,
The Christian Home Samuel Philips
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"But how do you account for this wonderful change, this unprecedented fever for Fourierism?" asked Flocon.
Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg
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It differed from Fourierism and Owenism, however, in that instead of a universal appeal based upon Brotherhood,
Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles John Spargo 1921
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There was a multitude of what Engels calls "social quacks," but the really great social movements, Owenism in England, and Fourierism in
Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles John Spargo 1921
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It was now merged in the weekly _Tribune_, in which all sorts of vagaries were exploited: Fourierism, spiritualism, opposition to divorce and the theater, total abstinence, abolitionism, opposition to the annexation of
Children of the Market Place Edgar Lee Masters 1909
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